Antonyms for distress
dɪˈstrɛsdis·tress

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1. distress

   Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.

   See synonyms for HAPPINESS.

   Synonyms:
   affliction, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

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1. distressverb

   Antonyms:
   soothe, compose, please, gratify, gladden, console, elate, comfort

   Synonyms:
   harass, embarrass, trouble, grieve, annoy, vex, mortify, pain, disturb, afflict, worry

Matched Categories

1. • Adversity
   • Pain
   • Trouble
   • Upset

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1. distress, hurt, sufferingnoun

   psychological suffering

   "the death of his wife caused him great distress"

   Synonyms:
   hurt, injury, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, distraint, suffering, trauma, agony, scathe, woe

2. distressnoun

   a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)

   "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"

   Synonyms:
   suffering, distraint, hurt

3. distressnoun

   extreme physical pain

   "the patient appeared to be in distress"

   Synonyms:
   suffering, distraint, hurt

4. distress, distraintverb

   the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim

   "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"

   Synonyms:
   suffering, distraint, hurt

5. straiten, distressverb

   bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

   Synonyms:
   straiten

6. distressverb

   cause mental pain to

   "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"

   Synonyms:
   straiten

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1. distressnoun

   Synonyms:
   anguish, agony, torture, sorrow, grief, misery, affliction, adversity, disaster, calamity, misfortune, straits, poverty, destitution, indigence

2. distressverb

   Synonyms:
   pain, grieve, afflict, wound, distrain

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eustress

   eustress is the response to a stressor that is channeled into a positive and constructive outcome

   there is a big exam coming up. you study hard and believe in your ability to perform well.

   Submitted by anonymous on October 7, 2019  

How to use distress in a sentence?

1. Jeffrey Landsberg:

   The global economy and dry-bulk shipping market are showing us very real signs of distress, while dry-bulk rates often face at least some pressure during the early stages of a year, the magnitude of the declines being seen lately have been very rare.

2. Victoria Francis:

   He was just all over the map. He was pretty irritated and the more irritated he got, he’d make more threats, like ‘I’m the guy with the bomb. If you make a mistake, this is all on you.’ And he’d laugh at that, he was clearly in extreme distress.

3. H. G. Wells:

   ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

4. Jason Chaffetz:

   Our initial review of the allegations has caused alarm and distress over their serious nature, the Utah Attorney General recently made the committee aware of credible evidence of misconduct by a U.S. District Court Judge.

5. Confucius, The Confucian Analects:

   The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

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